Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore

In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case study of Singapore's response to the pandemic during 2020–22, centred on the control of migrant worker...

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Autores principales: Goggin, Gerard, Zhuang, Kuansong Victor
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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(Im)mobile entanglements
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018117/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779231160802
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description In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case study of Singapore's response to the pandemic during 2020–22, centred on the control of migrant workers through the use of Covid apps. We argue that Covid apps enact ‘managed inequality’ in blatant as well as subtle ways for migrants and the societies in which they live and belong.
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spelling pubmed-100181172023-03-16 Apps, mobilities, and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: Covid technology and the control of migrant workers in Singapore Goggin, Gerard Zhuang, Kuansong Victor Int J Cult Stud (Im)mobile entanglements In this article we discuss the entanglement of apps, mobilities, and migration – and the way that apps work as migrant infrastructure in a Covid context. We develop our analysis through a case study of Singapore's response to the pandemic during 2020–22, centred on the control of migrant workers through the use of Covid apps. We argue that Covid apps enact ‘managed inequality’ in blatant as well as subtle ways for migrants and the societies in which they live and belong. SAGE Publications 2023-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10018117/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779231160802 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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